Tag Archives: carnegie center

Teen Howl 5th Anniversary Celebration

12 Replies

Teen Howl 5th Anniversary Series

Tonight’s Teen Howl will celebrate the series’ fifth anniversary, and will take place at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky instead of the Morris Book Shop. The featured poet is Amelia Martens, author of The Spoons in the Grass are There To Dig a Moat (Sarabande Books, 2016).

Open mic will start at 6pm, so show up a few minutes early to sign up!

Click here for Facebook Event page

When: Thursday, November 3, 2016 @ 6pm
Where: Carnegie Center
251 W. Second St.
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175

The monthly event features the best of Lexington’s young poets (including an open mic), and headlines an under 20-year-old featured poet as well as an accomplished guest in the poetry community. Founded in 2011 by Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy, the name is based off of Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl”, which the group read in pieces during their initial meetings.

Jeremy Paden & Thomas Zemsky Reading, Open Mic

192 Replies

Ruina Montium by Jeremy Paden (Broadstone Books, 2016)On Thursday, October 20th at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky, Jeremy Paden and Thomas Zemsky will be reading from their newest poetry collections from Broadstone Books. The event will begin with an open mic at 6pm.

Jeremy Paden (author of Broken Tulips) is an Associate Spanish Professor and Program Director for the Foreign Languages department at Transylvania University as well as an Affrilachian Poet. His newest collection, ruina montium (Broadstone Books, 2016), delves into the 33 miners trapped in a copper mine in Chile in 2010.

After the Storm by Thomas Zemsky (Broadstone Books, 2016)Thomas Zemsky has an MFA from the prestigious Iowa Writer’s Workshop and spent a long time working with the International Book Project. After the Storm (Broadstone Books, 2016) draws on Zemsky’s fifty years of writing poetry. According to the book’s description, Zemsky talks about:

themes as diverse as a presidential inauguration and a letter from Frankenstein’s creature, with a horse on a ladder and a cast of other memorably improbable characters along the way, all served up in language that is delightfully quirky and often subversively wry.

(source)

Click here for the Facebook Event page

Click here for more information from the Kentucky Literary Calendar

When: Thursday, October 20, 2016 @ 6pm
Where: Carnegie Center
251 W. Second St.
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175

World Premiere for Fountains for Orpheus by Audrey Rooney

194 Replies

Fountains for Orpheus by Audrey RooneyWe invite you to attend the world premiere of Audrey Rooney‘s Fountains for Orpheus at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky.

In Fountains of Orpheus, Audrey Rooney explores timeless concepts from love and loss to aging and nature. This book contains poems of diverse shapes, forms and sizes, as well as several translations of Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus, matched with Audrey’s poignant responses to Rilke’s work.

Audrey will read from and copies of Fountains for Orpheus will be available from Accents Publishing.

Click here to see the Facebook event page

When: Thursday, August 18, 2016 @ 5pm
Where: Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
251 W. Second St.
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175

Kentucky Great Writers: Jay McCoy, Jason, Howard, Gwyn Hyman Rubio

239 Replies

13124892_10208114519973142_8225082466574400718_n

Jay McCoy, author of The Occupation (Accents Publishing), will be one of the featured speakers at tonight’s Kentucky Great Writers event along with Jason Howard and Gwyn Human Rubio.

Jay McCoyThe poems of The Occupation deal with homosexual relationships and the threat of HIV. Jay McCoy instructs the class “Writing for Recovery” at the NAMI Participation Station in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a Lexington-based poet and visual artist with deep roots in Eastern Kentucky as well as the general manager for the Morris book shop and co-founder of the Teen Howl Poetry Series.

Jason Howard‘s writings have spanned the careers of such musicians as Carly Simon, Dwight Yoakam, Ricky Skaggs, Jim James, and Jean Ritchie. A Few Honest Words: The Kentucky Roots of Popular Music (University Press of Kentucky) explores the many genres in which Kentucky musicians have helped contribute, from folk and jazz to hip hop and gospel.

Gwyn Hyman RubioBecause Gwyn Hyman Rubio‘s father, a writer, had a fatal heart attack at 39, she stayed away from the profession as long as she could. In 1983, she realized her calling and was accepted into the MFA Program at Warren Wilson College. Her writing tends to explore human relationships, especially those of children and parets. Love and Ordinary Creatures (Ashland Creek Press) is from the perspective of a cockatoo and explores the bird’s relationship with his caretaker.

Open mic sign-ups start at 6:30pm with readings at 7. Featured guests begin at 7:30.

Visit the Facebook Event page for more info.

When: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 @ 7PM
Where: The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
251 W. Second Street
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175

& Grace Book Release Party

20 Replies

& Grace: selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2015We will be selling & Grace: Selections from Lexington Poetry Month 2015 at the Carnegie Center in Lexington, Kentucky on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 6pm.

If you are one of the featured reader (please click here to see the complete list), then you are welcome to come and read your poem.

This book could not have happened without the commitment and dedication from the Lexington Poetry Month poets and the amazing community that has been supporting the Lexington Poetry Month Writing Challenge for so long. Once again, thank you so much.

Click the Facebook Event page for more details.

When: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 @ 6PM
Where: The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning
251 W. Second Street
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175

National Poetry Month in Lexington

160 Replies

This month, there are quite a few events in Lexington, Kentucky celebrating National Poetry Month. Here are a few of them.

If you would like any events added to our event calendar, please click here to contact us.

Teen Howl 52 featuring Josh Rivera

Teen Howl 52 with Josh RiveraThis Thursday, April 7th, at 6pm, the Morris book shop. Hosted, as always, by Elizabeth Beck and Jay McCoy. Open mic sign-up starts at 5:45pm.

Thursday, April 7, 2016
6pm @ the Morris book shop
882 E High Street,
Lexington, KY 40502 Continue reading →

KY Great Writers: Sharon Mauldin Reynolds, Tom C. Hunley, Paulette Livers

280 Replies

KY Great Writers Series February 9, 2016 with Tom C. Hunley, Paulette Livers, and Sharon Mauldin Reynolds

The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning is hosting one of its quarterly KY Great Writers Series. The featured readers will be Sharon Mauldin Reynolds, Accents Published Tom C. Hunley (of Scotch Tape World), and Paulette Livers.

An open mic will take place before the show, and sign-ups begin at 6:30pm. The open mic will also feature readings from students from the Carnegie Center’s Author Academy.

Check out the Facebook Event page for more info.

When: Tuesday, February 9, 2016 @ 7pm
Where: The Carnegie Center
251 W. Second Street
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 254-4175

Bigger Than They Appear Reading summary (Part 1)

14 Replies

In 2012, the Lexington Public Library recorded and produced a reading held at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. This event featured readings from Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems.

For the full list of videos, click here.

The poets were asked to read one of their poems as well as someone else’s. Below are the poets, the time stamp where they appear in the video, and the poems they read. The emcee is Katerina Stoykova-Klemer.

NOTE: The anthology was dedicated to the Memory of Mark Russell Brown. In this video, Katerina discusses who he was at 08:59 and a poem of his is read by K. Nicole Brown.